This data was produced by TheyWorkForYou from a variety of sources.
Email me updates on Iain Wright’s activity (no more than once per day)
Iain Wright
Labour MP for Hartlepool
- Entered Parliament on 30 September 2004 — Byelection
- Send a message to your MP (via WriteToThem.com)
- Sign up to HearFromYourMP to get messages from your MP
- Help us add video by matching a speech by Iain Wright
- Voting record
- Topics of interest
- Most recent appearances
- Numerology
- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Iain Wright voted on key issues:
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted very strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted very strongly against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
Read about how the voting record is decided.
More on well-known issues (from the Guardian) & their full record
- Never rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Health, Business, Innovation and Skills, Education, Treasury, Home Department
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Departmental Public Expenditure, Departmental NDPBs, Public Expenditure, Railways, Manufacturing Industries: Finance
(based on written questions asked by Iain Wright and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Education Bill Committee (22 out of 22)
- Housing and Regeneration Bill Committee (17 out of 17)
- UK Borders Bill Committee (14 out of 14)
- Finance Bill Committee (13 out of 14)
- Fraud (Trials without a Jury) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- Serious Crime Bill Committee (4 out of 9)
- Consumer Credit Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
- National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (1 out of 4)
- Regulation of Financial Services (Land Transactions) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Finance (No.2) Bill Committee (19 out of 21)
- Terrorism (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Gambling Bill Committee (2 out of 14)
- Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill Committee (6 out of 10)
- Education Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- Gambling Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: Economic Growth (2 Feb 2012)
“The Secretary of State will be aware of the chorus of disapproval at the manner in which the Government have handled the decision on solar power feed-in tariffs. Both the CBI and the Environmental Audit Committee have stated that it has wrecked supply chains and undermined confidence. Erica Robb of Spirit Solar told the Prime Minister last month that “weeks of chaos” have resulted...”
- Written Answers — Transport: High Speed 2 (31 Jan 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the oral statement of 10 January 2012, Official Report, columns 23-59, on high-speed rail, what estimate she has made of the number of businesses that will re-locate from Birmingham to London as a result of shorter journey times; and if she will make a statement.”
More of Iain Wright's recent appearances
Numerology
Please note that numbers do not measure quality. Also, representatives may do other things not currently covered by this site. (More about this)
- Has spoken in 50 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 225 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 67.26% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 18 annotations on this MP’s speeches — above average amongst MPs.
- This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 18–19 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
- 88 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Iain Wright’s activity.
- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 436 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
Register last updated: 13 Jan 2012. More about the Register
View the history of this MP's entries in the Register
Expenses
Figures in brackets are ranks.Data from parliament.uk (source). Read 2004/05 – 2008/09 and 1st quarter 2009/10 receipts.
| Type | 2008/09 (ranking out of 647) | 2007/08 (ranking out of 645) | 2006/07 (ranking out of 645) | 2005/06 | 2004/05 (ranking out of 659) | 2003/04 | 2002/03 | 2001/02 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staying away from main home | £15,418 (422nd) | £17,882 (441st) | £18,780 (429th) | £20,493 | £7,116 (591st) | |||
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |||
| Office running costs | £13,968 (472nd) | £20,221 (230th) | £17,711 (484th) | £18,059 | £13,108 (552nd) | |||
| Staffing costs | £90,622 (435th) | £84,844 (420th) | £84,503 (311th) | £68,325 | £25,956 (658th) | |||
| Communications Allowance | £6,430 (427th) | £644 (585th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £6,595 (354th)1 | £14,515 (85th)2 | £8,971 (274th)3 | £12,726 | £8,565 (395th) | |||
| Members' Staff Travel | £163 (304th) | £748 (140th) | £299 (277th) | £0 | £0 | |||
| Members' Spouse Travel | £0 | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Family Travel | £0 | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Centrally Purchased Stationery | £3,527 (318th) | £884 (271st) | £5,916 (11th) | £1,745 | £1,553 (164th) | |||
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £1,794 (414th) | £19,494 (8th) | £2,606 | £5,149 (135th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,316 (joint 163rd with 2 others) | £1,301 (43rd) | £889 | £55 (654th) | ||||
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |||
| Total | £136,725 (489th) | £142,848 (382nd) | £156,975 (37th) | £124,843 | £61,502 (658th) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £3,880 (199th). Rail £2,715 (301st).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £3,796 (232nd). Rail £10,719 (33rd).